Through a World Bank-funded program, citizens can participate in improving the quality of public services, including health, education, rural roads, agriculture and water and sanitation. The Social Accountability... Show More + (SA) component of the Promoting Basic Services Program Phase II (PBSII), a multi-donor initiative launched in 2006, helped establish a system for citizen participation by entrenching transparency and accountability at local and community levels. This also helps citizens hold policymakers and service providers accountable for their performance.“Prior to the introduction of Social Accountability in this wereda I did not even know what it meant,” said Firehiwot Mamo, a resident of Wereda 11, one of 232 weredas where the SA program has been implemented. “Once I became aware of Social Accountability, I quickly realized that I can use it to voice my needs and concerns and I became a member of social accountability committee and started encouraging others like me to get involved.”Fre Show Less -

“We were called by the agriculture officers in the Nambale division, who informed us that a special program had organized a dairy farmers meeting,” Kokonya said. “We were taught a lot of things … we were... Show More + also taught the importance of that program of dairy, because at the end of the day it will create employment to uplift the standard of living of people within this area.”The vast majority of Kenya’s poor live in rural areas like Nambale, a small but growing rural town center about 256 miles west of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. While populations in the western parts of the country benefit from better natural resource endowments, the poor remain especially prone to contracting insect- and water-borne diseases, and agricultural potential has been limited by the effects of flood-induced land degradation in some areas.Although resources have been allocated in response to these challenges, many community members have had limited opportunities to help decide how and where resources are spen Show Less -

Through a World Bank-funded program, citizens can participate in improving the quality of public services, including health, education, rural roads, agriculture and water and sanitation. The Social Accountability... Show More + (SA) component of the Promoting Basic Services Program Phase II (PBSII), a multi-donor initiative launched in 2006, helped establish a system for citizen participation by entrenching transparency and accountability at local and community levels. This also helps citizens hold policymakers and service providers accountable for their performance.“Prior to the introduction of Social Accountability in this wereda I did not even know what it meant,” said Firehiwot Mamo, a resident of Wereda 11, one of 232 weredas where the SA program has been implemented. “Once I became aware of Social Accountability, I quickly realized that I can use it to voice my needs and concerns and I became a member of social accountability committee and started encouraging others like me to get involved.”Fre Show Less -

As the situation became dire, worried fishermen rallied the entire village to take action in an effort to save their livelihoods and maintain their way of life. The village came together to establish the... Show More + Local Fishermen’s Committee of Ngaparou (known by its French acronym, CLP), with the goal of implementing a community-based fisheries management aimed at restoring fish stocks and promoting a healthy marine environment. Supported by $15 million dollars in funding from the World Bank, this Senegalese component of the West Africa Regional Fisheries Program (WARFP) enables the people of the Ngaparou to confront the challenge of over-exploited fish resources with sustainable solutions while benefiting from a social safety net.To tackle the problem of overfishing, the CLP had to convince fishermen in Ngaparou “that it was better to refrain from fishing in certain zones in order to benefit from markedly higher fishing yields when these areas, which were subject to protection, are reopened,” Show Less -

MANILA, September 10, 2014 –The World Bank Group welcomes the submission of the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law to the Philippine Congress by His Excellency President Benigno S. Aquino III. We commend the efforts... Show More + of the joint Government of the Philippines-Moro Islamic Liberation Front Bangsamoro Transition Commission in completing the preparation of the draft law. This is a crucial step in the road map to achieving peace and development in Mindanao. Show Less -

Accomplishments and lessons learntThe initial results on the ground are impressive. In the first year alone, up to 245,000 villagers in the first three Project townships (Kanpetlet in Chin State, Namhsan... Show More + in Shan State, and Kyunsu in Tanintharyi Region) benefitted from 350 sub-projects. 62-year-old U Sein Hlaing from Shan State told the project team during a field visit in May 2014: “This is the first time in my life where I’ve witnessed a project which is chosen by the communities--- not from the top authorities but from the bottom. For our village, we selected to upgrade the water supply system. Water is important for our village,”“There were many ‘firsts’ and lots to learn and absorb for all involved,” said Ingo Wiederhofer, a Lead Social Development Specialist from the World Bank, “It’s one of the first examples in Myanmar’s recent history of a government program that brings decision-making to communities to identify their development priorities and improve their lives.” Show Less -

In Kuka village, the project worked with the women’s group to help repair a road which allows people to get to markets and services in the nearby town of Arawa. Today there is a constant flow of buses... Show More + travelling to and from the village to the market, as well as fishermen and women from surrounding hamlets with their catch. It has also made a big difference for kids going to school and people needing to get to hospital, including women giving birth.”It is empowering, when women are really involved at the very beginning of the project. Because the maintenance of the road, it came through them,” says Anastasia Waim, president of the women’s group in Kuka village.Two women from Malasang village, Celestine Tomie and her younger niece Florence Tomiets, brought local women together to develop a resource center. Today it is a site for training in leadership, financial management and computer skills, as well as social events.Celestine explains that she envisaged the resource center as a site wh Show Less -

ApproachBCCRF has recognized the long-indispensable roles of local empowerment and numerous nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in community-based programs and services (often in partnership with government... Show More + and international development partners) by allocating US$12.5 million of its climate-resilience funding to NGOs through its Community Climate Change Project (CCCP). Of this amount, US$ 10.4 million will focus on competitive grants to NGOs to implement community-driven adaptation to climate change. The remaining funds will be allocated to monitoring, learning and sub-project refinement, through knowledge sharing and dissemination of lessons learned. The BCCRF Governing Council designated the Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) as the responsible agency for this project. The CCCP focuses on the communities hit hardest by current weather extremes: populations who live in coastal areas affected by saltwater intrusions, in flood-prone chars (silt islands in rivers) and river basins, o Show Less -

As part of a cultural heritage component of the coastal development program, the roads it rehabilitates are made to blend in with the historic region’s traditional architecture, and lead to historic and... Show More + potentially tourist-rich sites, like historic churches and museums.“This will develop this area and region and it will be good for tourism, which is the only income for the village,” says Aleks Marko, a local official in the coastal village of Dhermi.At least 8 road projects have been completed under the development program, which is financed by the World Bank.In addition to making Albania’s southern sea coast and natural assets more appealing to tourists, the program is rendering life more comfortable for the area’s thousands of permanent residents. Show Less -

The program uses inclusive approaches to sustainable development of the coastal areas.Under a community development component of the project, Nikollori and other coastal village residents applied for grants... Show More + to renovate their old roofs, facades and other basic structures, on condition the renovations comply with local architectural tradition, and that the beneficiaries contribute to the cost of rehabilitation.“I was in need of a new roof and if it hadn’t been for the program, I would have ended up paying a lot more and would have gotten less quality. I paid less and got a better roof,” says Kristofor Gjomemo, another Ilias resident.Gjomemo and his wife received a grant that paid for 70 percent of their new roof, made of the same clay-style tiles their coastal village has used for generations. Elpiniqi Gjikondi got a similar grant to retile her roof through the same program, in the coastal village of Qeparo.“I like that it looks old, with the same old chimneys just as it was i Show Less -

NCDDP Launch Monday, June 23, 2014Ormoc, LeyteSpeech of Mr. Motoo KonishiCountry DirectorWorld Bank PhilippinesHonorable Secretary Dinky Soliman,Honorable Governors and Mayors,Civil Society Representatives,... Show More + Development partners, Friends from the media,Ladies and Gentleman,MA-U-PAY NGA AGA (Good morning) to all of you. To the people of Ormoc City, Happy Fiesta! I am very pleased to be with you on the launch of the KALAHI-CIDSS National Community Driven Development Project or NCCDP. It is also my privilege to be here with you for the first time in Ormoc City. I know that this city has been seriously affected by typhoon Yolanda so before anything else, I would like to take this opportunity to express my deep sympathies to the people of Ormoc City for the loss of your dearly beloved, homes, and properties. I also know that there arelocal government leaders from other devastated areas from the Visayas and Mindanao here, so I would also like to acknowledge their p Show Less -

Statement by Ms. Chiyo KandaPhilippines Acting Country Director, World BankSecretary Dinky Soliman,Country Director of the Asian Development Bank, Richard Bolt,Friends from the media,Ladies and Gentlemen,It... Show More + is an honor and pleasure for me to join today’s press conference with the Department of Social Welfare and Development, together with our development partner, the Asian Development Bank. The World Bank strongly believes that the expansion of the KALAHI-CIDSS into the National Community-Driven Development Program (KC-NCDDP) will empower more local communities and local governments across the country to participate in local planning, budgeting and implementation of community-level projects that help reduce poverty. That is why last February, the World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors expressed strong support to this program and approved a US$479 million loan to scale up the KALAHI-CIDSS to a nation-wide coverage. We expect that the World Bank financing will c Show Less -

Bank ContributionThe International Development Agency (IDA) allocated and disbursed $250 million to the Third Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund for the Social Mobilization and Institution Building, Livelihood... Show More + enhancement and protection, Micro-credit access, Basic Services and Infrastructure and Project Implementation Support.Partners The Bank worked with the Government of Pakistan through the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund, which channeled the financing for the project from IDA. Show Less -